Gravity [Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray] [2013] [Region Free]

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Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more. Structurally, the film suffers from repetition in the second half and the finale is somewhat convenient and implausible, however overall it manages to achieve what it sets out to do – giving the viewer a visceral thrill ride and the approximation of an experience one might not otherwise be in a position to have. Although Gravity wasn't shot with IMAX cameras, it demonstrated how a story could match the technical specifications of projection to go even bigger and wider than what audiences were perhaps anticipating. Gravity was a massive team effort, headed by Cuarón but relying on the expertise and vision of men and women across all aspects of filmmaking. The main thing is the final file needs to be in side-by-side format where the left eye is one side of the image and the right the other.

Now the couple’s only chance of survival is to reach the International Space Station before their oxygen runs out.

The case, housed in a lenticular cover, stacks the Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray discs on the right, and places the DVD alone on the left. And I’ve never been the biggest fan of Bullock but I thought she was really good in this and I liked her character a lot. Sometimes it's near impossible to talk about why you like a film without, you know, talking about the whole thing. Despite its billing as an "IMAX 3D Experience" in theaters, Gravity was shot and presented using a traditional 2.

As Gravity is clearly meant to be seen in 3D on the largest cinema screen possible (Imax or similar), I very much doubt the story and characters are compelling enough to sustain interest once all the immersive spectacle is stripped away for the home video environment.Worth the production delays and extended wait to get the film fully rendered in 3D, this is one of the best - again, if not the best - examples of the technology since the format's introduction with the benchmark-setting Avatar. The vast, yawning abyss of the solar system, seemingly limitless in its expanse and only broken when Cuaron chooses to foreground other elements (a wrecked space station, the beauty of Earth itself), is further emboldened by IMAX's wider-than-usual aspect ratio. Fine detailing is also brilliantly resolved and adds a wholly convincing sense of three-dimensional texture to every surface.

Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space (HD, 22:28 ) Ed Harris narrates this documentary about the millions of pieces of man-made debris currently orbiting the Earth. In what will likely become an iconic moment in film history, a Marvin the Martian doll floats into the audience’s space in one of the lighter moments in the film. Thanks to blockbuster genre films that use 3D as a gimmick, throwing things into the audience either for a laugh or a scare, it’s common for classier 3D films to ignore this part of the viewing experience in favor of simply creating deep, immersive environments, but Cuaron fully utilizes every aspect of the technology with Gravity. Gravity is an outstanding visual film directed by Alfonso Cuaron, crammed with some lovely area views, and excellent 3D effects that were used in an appropriate manner to create an extraordinary CGI appearance. One that draws you into its orbit with its spectacular digital effects and edge-of-the-seat thrills, but keeps you hooked through its intimate characterisation.Not only do we get all those trademark reach-out-and-touch-it moments that viewers appear to have a love/hate relationship with, but the 3D brings life to a place most of us are utterly unfamiliar with: truly affording us a glimpse at the bottomless depth of space. His erotic and impassioned Mexican road trip drama Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) utilises extended takes and an omniscient narrator to dispassionately comment on teenage sexuality and the realities of a fracturing male friendship. No banding, no macroblocking, no damage or dirt, no crush, no edge enhancement, no noise in darker moments. Her performance is built on a series of true-to-life revelations and vulnerabilities that, as pressure mounts, chip away at her character's deep-seated melancholy and set her free. but also quite so much tension out of such a minimalistic, realistic setting and story, blowing similar but more conventionally Oscar-worthy efforts like Apollo 13 out of the atmosphere with its ground-breaking depiction of an against-the-clock space disaster.

In fact, in Gravity, there wasn’t gratuitous use of objects popping out in front of the screen; rather, 3D was used to create the depth of space.Stone's ability to pilot certain vehicles, how important parachutes and certain landing mechanisms will be, how Stone thinks to use a fire extinguisher 'Wall-E' style, the recurring usage of oxygen running out. It puts the IMAX technique in the service of the story without ever sacrificing the essential human heartbeat, sketching a pared-down, urgent story of survival. The director was thinking about the movie in the multi-dimensional format with every shot, and it shows. The picture it paints for the future of space exploration is troubling indeed, especially as solutions seem few and far between. The hefty, comprehensive Documentary – Gravity: Mission Control – runs a good quarter-hour longer than the main feature itself and is split into 9 sub-sections, covering every element in the production of the movie, from the story, scope and space-setting to the casting, shooting in space and scoring space.